When Ralph Eugene Traber Jr was born on 6 October 1928, in Rochester, Ulster, New York, United States, his father, Ralph Eugene Traber, was 37 and his mother, Marion Palmer, was 39. He married Della M Green on 4 June 1949, in Olean, Cattaraugus, New York, United States. He lived in Castile, Wyoming, New York, United States in 1940 and Silver Lake, Pittsfield, Otsego, New York, United States in 1995. He died on 8 April 2005, in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Perry, Perry, Wyoming, New York, United States.